Combination pocket-book.



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COMBINATION POCKET 800K.

(Application filed Sept. 33. 1901.)

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MAX SOHEUER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINATION POCKET-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,449, dated February is, 1902.

Application filed September 23, 1901. Serial No. 76,164. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, MAX SCHEUER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city,county and State of New York, have I 5 invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Pocket-Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a pocket-book of the class known as combination pocketbooks and in which the pockets are adapted to be closed by a folding cover carrying a cardcase upon its inner face.

By my invention the pocket-book is more perfectly adapted for holding gloves, hand- '1' kerchiefs, and si'lnilar artieles oarried by ladies, While any spilling of the contents of the pockets will be prevented.

Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end view of my improved pocket-book, showing it closed. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same, showing it open; and Fig. 3, an inner face view, showing it open.

The letter 0. represents the pockets, and b the folding cover, of a combination pocket- 2 5 book. Between the cover b and the pockets at I interpose a second folding cover a, which projects into the rearm'ost pocket and forms a partition that divides the same into an outer compartment 0. and an inner compartment a The cover 0 folds over the pockets a underneath the cover-b and is slightly shorter than the latter, so that its enddoes not protrude. Means should be provided for locking the cover 0 against the front a of the pocket,

book, such means consisting; preferably, of a strap (1, extending across the lower edges of the pockets and carrying the female part c of a catch, the male part e of which is carried by the cover 0. By this fastener an okpansible open-ended chamber is formed between the front a and the flap c, which is adapted for the reception and retention of a handkerchief, while gloves may be slipped in between thecovers b and c. The cover b is provided with pockets b, which, as well as the pocket a, formed on the outer side of cover a, may be used for cards, tickets, &c.

It will be seen'that my improved combination pocket-book ofi'ers increased facilities for carrying gloves, handkerchiefs, and cards.

Further,in combination pocket-books as her tofore constructed the contents of the pockets a. were liable to drop out if the cover was thrown back unless the pocket-book was held right side up. With my construction this objection is overcome, and while the device posfront of the pocket-book, and an outer cover.

secured to the same end of the pocket-book as the inner cover and adapted to fold over the same, substantially as specified.

. Signed by me at New York city, county an State of New York, this 21st day of September, 1901. g

MAX SCHEUER.

Witnesses:

F. V. BRIESEN, WILLIAM SoHULz. I 

